Sir Tony Robinson, the star of Blackadder and a seasoned Time Team presenter, has stated that he wants the message on climate change to be less depressing and more upbeat.
Robinson, a filmmaker of numerous climate change movies made this known while delivering a speech to commemorate the release of the computer game Floodland, a survival game that takes place after a catastrophe brought on by climate change.
“I’ve been frustrated for quite some time about the way we talk about climate change,” he said. “It’s like there’s nothing but doom and gloom. “We might as well just suck our thumbs, sit in the corner and wait to die.”
According to him, Players are forced to deal with environmental difficulties as humanity tries to live after a catastrophic flood kills the majority of people in the city-building game.
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Robinson noted that games can be used to reach a generation that is increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change and reassure them that there is still hope for the future of the earth.
“I was looking for pieces of culture that would discuss these really serious things but do so in a creative and even optimistic way,” he said. “I think it’s very important that we don’t just teach children that climate change is so awful that they should be paralysed into inactivity,”.
Speaking further, he said, “there is some evidence that some children are starting to think that, but we mustn’t teach them that. “We’ve got to teach them about the positives – and where better to teach them that than on their screens?”
Story was adapted from Sky News.
